Gov. Expert Just Connected all of the North Korean Dots… This Isn’t Good

While there has been quite a bit of attention focused on North Korea’s illicit ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs, one expert thinks the media pundits have been overlooking an important connection of capabilities in order to downplay the threat of a potentially devastating attack on the U.S. homeland.

Dr. Peter Vincent Pry is the chief of staff of the Congressional EMP Commission and executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, and he is convinced that North Korea already possesses the ability to strike the U.S. — not with a conventional missile-based nuclear warhead, but one carried by a satellite that could be detonated above the atmosphere to produce an electromagnetic pulse that would have horrifying effects on our technologically dependent society.

In a recent interview with Breitbart‘s Aaron Klein, Pry insisted that media pundits and government officials were focusing too much on North Korea’s lack of a proven long-range intercontinental ballistic missile, atmospheric re-entry vehicle and miniaturized nuclear warhead, none of which would be needed to detonate an EMP over the U.S.

Pry spoke of an old plan by the former Soviet Union — now believed to have been shared with the North Koreans — to launch a disabling EMP strike against the U.S. using earth-orbiting satellite-based warheads in advance of a more conventional nuclear strike. While North Korea may indeed be incapable of the second stage follow-up attack of that plan, they most certainly have the capability to launch the opening EMP sequence of events.

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“(The North Koreans) are positioning themselves as sort of a nuclear missile age, cyberage version of the battleship diplomacy in my view,” Pry explained. “So that they can always have one of them (satellites) very close to being over the United States or over the United States.”

“Then if a crisis comes up and if we decide to attack North Korea, Kim Jong Un can threaten our president and say, ‘Well, don’t do that because we are going to burn your whole country down.’ Which is basically what he said,” Pry continued. “I mean, he has made threats about turning the United States into ashes and he connected the satellite program to this in public statements to deter us from attacking.”

In speaking of the old Soviet plan, Pry remarked how the Soviet satellites were specifically positioned to orbit the earth so as to approach the U.S. from the south, which is woefully unguarded against any sort of strike from that direction.

“Because we didn’t during the Cold War and even today we still don’t have ballistic missile early radar warnings looking south,” said Pry. “We don’t have any national missile defenses to the south. We are blind and defenseless to the south. We can’t see anything coming from that direction. Then when this gets over the United States you light it off so that it does an EMP attack.”

While the Soviets would likely have targeted military and strategic command targets in advance of follow-up volleys of nuclear ICBMs, North Korea likely lacks the follow-up capability, so its EMP would likely have a different focus.

“I think what they are mainly going for is the unhardened electric grid,” Pry guesstimated. “Transportation, communications, all of the other civilian critical infrastructure that we depend upon to keep our population alive.”

Pry penned a recent op-ed for Newsmax in which he pointed out that the most recent North Korean missile test — widely viewed as a failure after the missile detonated in mid-air shortly after launch — could actually have been a great success given the detonation occurred at the optimal height for an effective EMP blast.

Dr. Pry has been warning about how vulnerable our nation is to an EMP attack for quite some time, but his dire warnings have gone largely unheeded or been dismissed and ignored. Perhaps his most recent sobering assessments of how close North Korea may actually be to having the capability to land a devastating blow against the U.S. homeland will finally garner the attention it truly deserves.

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